Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...

Die von der Bundesregierung von neun auf sechs Monate verkürzte Wehr- und Zivildienstzeit hat insbesondere bei den Sozial- und Wohlfahrtsverbänden zu einem kollektiven Aufschrei geführt. Mit dieser Verkürzung seien die Zivildienstleistenden nicht mehr sinnvoll einzusetzen, die...

Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...

Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting is rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment heterogeneity. Using a large administrative panel data set, we...